Retro-Review: Batman/Daredevil: King of New York #1

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• 8.0

  X-Man's Comic Blog - x-man75

  Dec 23, 2010

  First off, a confession... I am a HUGE Scarecrow fan, and firmly believe that he could/should be Batman's number two villain behind the Joker. When written properly, Scarecrow is creepy, menacing and quite difficult to defeat. So the fact that Scarecrow was one of the two main villains in this one automatically gave it a leg up for me. With all that said, I think Alan Grant(writer)did a very good job portraying Scarecrow as totally crazy and unpredictable, as well as a menace. I also enjoyed Kingpin here, as he was basically just collateral damage in Scarecrow's bizarre plot to have his fear gas rain down from the heavens onto the streets of New York. Batman and Daredevil really didn't seem to like each other here, as they teamed up once before in what I'm going to assume was team-up that didn't really go all that well. There were a few little things that bugged me, such as Batman and Kingpin fighting to a stalemate in the stairwell of the Statue of Liberty, and Scarecrow shooti Read Full Review